Sentences with phrase «exercised ecclesiastical authority»

But then the Nestorian church (as most of the early Asian Christian communities came to be called) exercised ecclesiastical authority over more of the earth than either Rome or Constantinople.

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Neither is the second paragraph of canon 392 (c. 392) which urges bishops to «exercise vigilance so that abuses do not creep into ecclesiastical discipline, especially regarding the ministry of the word, the celebration of the sacraments... the worship of God...» Although theSecond Vatican Council restored to bishops a greater measure of legitimate authority in their own dioceses, it did not liberate them from applying the «common discipline» as promulgated by the Church's Supreme Legislator, the Holy Father.

Certain matters of ecclesiastical discipline may legitimately vary from place to place; but when one asserts the autonomy of an individual bishop to such an extent that his authority can be exercised against the norms of the universal Church, ultimately one fractures the unity of the Church.

Mormon women exercise very little ecclesiastical authority, especially at the highest levels of the Church.